纪录片《饮食变迁》 第29期:有些人就是肥不起来（在线收听）

The study called for each inmate to gain 25% of their body weight.

这项研究要求每一位囚犯体重增加25%

In return, they were promised early release from jail.

作为回报 他们可以提前出狱

Over the course of the year, the team fed

在超过一年的实验中 研究团体

the volunteer prisoners as much as they could physically eat

让志愿者尽可能地多吃食物

and carefully monitored their bodily changes.

并且仔细观察他们身体的变化

But as it went on, Dr Sims

但随着实验的进行 西姆斯博士

became concerned by an unexpected finding.

有了意想不到的发现

However much they ate,

不管他们吃多少

some of the prisoners could not reach the target.

有一部分人就是达不到目标

Two of the prisoners got stuck at 21%

两个囚犯到了21%就没有进展了

and one of them couldn't

而有一个人怎么也

put on any more than 18% extra body weight,

无法增加超过18%以上额外的体重

despite eating as much as 10,000 calories a day.

尽管他们一天要吃10000卡路里的食物

The experiment pointed to

这个实验指出了一个

a fascinating and unexpected conclusion.

引人注目且出人意料的结论

It seemed that for some people

似乎对于某些人来说

becoming obese is not just unlikely,

肥胖不仅是不大可能

it's practically impossible.

实际是根本不可能

It would be some time before

这个重要发现可能要

the importance of these findings was accepted.

经过一段时间才能被人们接受

In the meantime, people continued to be

同时 人们继续被那些

attracted to any dieting fad that claimed it would work.

声称有效的节食风潮所吸引